Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice (Special Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:57 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © World Circuit
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela’s classic collaborative album Rejoice will be reissued in Special Edition formats on October 22nd, available as a 2CD Casebook, 180g Gatefold 2LP and streaming & download. For this Special Edition release, World Circuit have gone back to Allen & Masekela’s original 2010 mixes and added previously unheard parts from the follow-up 2019 sessions to create 8 reimagined bonus mixes. The physical formats will also feature liner notes and photos. ‘Slow Bones (Cool Cats Mix)’ is the first of the bonus mixes made available to stream now.
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Hugh Masekela – Liberation: The Best Of Hugh Masekela (1988) [Reissue 2001]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 66:49 minutes | Scans included | 4,34 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | 66:39 min | Scans | 1,48 GB
SACD edition of compilation for the African artist who’s vibrant trumpet & flugelhorn solos have been featured in pop, R&B, disco, Afropop & jazz contexts…
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Hugh Masekela – Hope (1994) [Analogue Productions Remaster 2008]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 74:21 minutes | Scans included | 3,14 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,57 GB
Now happily resettled in South Africa, Masekela assembled a seven-piece group there and recorded an informal guided tour of his life and repertoire live in Washington D.C.’s Blues Alley. The songs stretch over a period of nearly five decades and several countries and composers — from an incantatory Alexandria township tune, “Languta,” which he learned in 1947, to a fairly ordinary piece written by keyboardist Themba Mkhize in 1993, “Until When.” “Abangoma” starts the CD out on the right track, hearkening back to the early fusion of African music and jazz that Masekela was playing back in 1966. “Mandela (Bring Him Back Home)” may have lost some of its political raison d’etre by 1993, but it remains a good tune, and the band plays it with enthusiasm. Yet Masekela’s biggest hit, “Grazing in the Grass,” sounds a bit tired in this live rendition. There are two songs by the prolific South African composer Caiphus Semenya, “Nomali” and the driving “Ha Le Se,” and the late Nigerian idol Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is represented by “Lady.” Clearly the resolution of the political struggle in South Africa had mellowed Masekela; he sounds happier, perhaps less fiery, certainly more polished and refined on the trumpet and flugelhorn than when he started out. But when you hear his bitter narration on “Stimela,” describing the life of formerly conscripted coal miners, you suspect that not all of the old wounds have healed. (more…)
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